state department documents were released by house republicans, including a cable from ambassador chris stevens that was written a month before that deadly attack, where he said, warning prophetically that the attacks and the new violence in that country were not random, but were targeted, and discriminate. it's likely there will be some more litigating on the situation in libya. but particularly, the romney campaign believes it's economic message and its message of bipartisan leadership is one that resonates. they have a new ad out, and one other note, i was asking them specifically about the state of ohio, where this may all be decided, and barely two weeks from now, alex. they say while the early voting favors the president right now, that they are ahead of the early voting goals and they're pretty confident that if they can stay in this position, they will run away with it on election day. >> ohio, ohio, ohio. we will see. thanks very much from florida, though. we appreciate that, peter alexander. next let's check in on president obama's debate preparations today. we go to nbc's mike viquei